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Friday, March 29, 2013

It’s CPAC plus one week and after shooting over 100 pices of
video scheduled as posts over a two week period and with my youngest’s school
schedule giving him Mon & Wed off till summer I actually had time to
solicit my radio show door to door in person in Concord Ma this week.

I know in theory someone should be selling this for me and
I’m constantly on the lookout for people willing to do commission sales for me
but there is something about important and special about doing the work
yourself, meeting people and talking your show and web site, nobody knows your
show or business like you do and it’s good for people to see the host of the
show in person.

If you have a business I
strongly suggest you devote at least a few days a year to getting out and
meeting your customers or potential customers in person, you won’t regret it.

Some things are just so ridiculous that you have to see them
to believe them.Al Sharpton hitting
people for anti-Semitism is a great example

When
people falsely use terms like Antisemitism, ESPECIALLY when they are
anti-Semitic haters like Al Sharpton, it waters down the effect of what should
be a horrible label.

Al
Sharpton has no right to determine what is anti-Semitic, but as a Jew who has
faced Antisemitism many times during his life..I do. People who are
fighting for the Second Amendment, like me for example, are not doing so
because of Jew hatred.

Al
Sharpton, the MSNBC broadcaster/professional agitator who used the term
this morning is an Anti-Semite of the worst kind.

It’s amazing what you can get
away with if you have the gumption to do it:

If you ever question Glenn Reynolds deserved the lifetime
achievement award for blogging at CPACconsider that it takes 4 bloggers to replace him on his site when he
goes on vacation.

Stacy McCain continues to be busy, he is now Editor in Chief
of a new site Viral Read which combines
both cultural news and political news.(This BTW is an excellent idea, we need to be part of the bigger culture
if we are going to win) but he is also on the road again heading
down to SC-1 to cover the Sanford Bostic GOP primary.

Mark Sanford’s history makes him a kamikaze choice for the
GOP.Even if he wins both the primary
and the general election the GOP loses, meanwhileBostic has already been endorsed by both Rick
Santorum and Ann Coulter.

If I was a democrat I’d be shoveling money to the Sanford
campaign and readying mailings attacking Bostic ASAP they would rather avoid
facing a Marine with Deployments to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia than a pol whose
most famous deployment was to
Argentina.

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A few months ago I interviewed some writers who were big Dr.
Who fans.It appeared that there were
two distinct Dr. Who cultures.Guys like
me, the straight guys into history & SF and a very liberal subculture full
of Gay men who absolutely adored the series.

This came to mind with the daily mail story concerning John
Nathan Turner producer of Dr. Who who took over for the last Tom Baker season
and presided over it’s steady decline and
cancellation.

The BBC faces a new sex scandal
over claims two senior Doctor Who staff abused their positions to exploit fans.

A book alleges the show’s
longest-serving producer, John Nathan-Turner, and his partner, production
manager Gary Downie, preyed on young male fans in the 1980s.

Many of the men, the book says,
were under 21 – at the time the homosexual age of consent.

I guess that explains why the series had its decline,the producer had other things on their mind.It took a lot of years for this stuff to get
out to the public, if only a Catholic Priest was involved perhaps it might have
generated some interest before now.

BTW this
weekend I’ll have the pleasure of both the new 50th anniversary
special with the 3rd Doctor and the new season with Matt Smith.For all the talk of the Gay fan subculture
without them I wouldn’t be enjoying both of these series this weekend.

I wonder if they had time to film anything with Caroline
Jones (Liz Shaw) before her death last year?

While the
MSM is all Gay Marriage all the time Dave Weigel (one of my guests on DaTechGuy
on DaRadio last week) pointed out something that is a sore
spot for me:

The new Democratic advocates for SSM fall
into two camps. The first consists of people who always liked the idea of this
but worried about losing national elections. In his memoir, Democratic
consultant Bob Shrum remembers John Kerry fretting that the Massachusetts
Supreme Court had forced Democrats to talk about gay marriage before they were
ready to. "Why couldn't they just wait a year?" he asked Shrum,
mournfully. The second camp consists of people who really do oppose the idea of
gay people getting married. Republicans argued that this second camp was tiny,
and that liberals were hiding behind it. They were right!

The “We
don’t need a constitutional Amendment” has been and always was a lie, and the
democrat party that has always been beholding to the entertainment and media
industries in which the homosexual community is highly overrepresented while
believing Christians are highly unrepresented

The left
is the secular party; Christianity and traditional values are the enemy.I recognized it almost 20 years ago, it
remains to be seen when everyone else will get it.

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This is
Holy week the most sacred time in the Church’s calendar.A lot of people think that Christmas is the
holiest day of the year, and some think Easter but Good Friday and the Easter
Vigil beat them both.The Easter Vigil
mass is a minimum 3 hours and can run 4-5 depending on the number of people
joining the church that day.

A lot of
people don’t realize it but the Catholic Churchis very serious about adult and family conversions.You don’t just get baptized it takes a fair
amount of time, preparation and study to join the church.I think this is why converted adults tend to
be stronger and more knowledgeable about the faith than cradle Catholics, they
HAVE to learn the faith to become a part of it.

It
appears the Boston Red Sox streak of sellouts is going to end this year.The Sox have a 6 state customer base, one of
the most historic franchise in the nation and a ballpark that is not only one
of the smallest in the majors but is itself an attraction in itself.

"It's going to rest in peace sometime
in April, I suspect," Lucchino said of the streak, which began in 2003 and
is the longest in U.S. pro sports history. "That's not such a terrible
thing. It's an extraordinary accomplishment."

But even
that isn’t enough if you don’t put a worthwhile product on the field.Or the fact that it is prohibitively
expensive for a family of four to attend a game.4 tickets in the nosebleed seats run $120 (if you shift to the bleachers the
price drops to a mere $112).If you want
to sit other than in nosebleed land in left field you will pay over $200 and
that’s without the premium you pay

That
doesn’t count parking, hotdogs or drinks, or a program.In an economy where people are making half or
less than what they were making 4 or 6 years ago

On the
bright side so many people have fled NE the Red Sox can be sure that no matter
what park they play New England expatriates who likely couldn’t afford good Red
Sox seat will be in the stands to cheer.

You might
leave to find a job but Red Sox fans never leave their team behind.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Well CPAC has come and gone but the GOP seems to have
learned little.Monday the talk is all
re-branding and tweaking things to that suddenly the MSM will decide that the
Republican Party is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Earth to GOP, your problem isn’t branding it’s principles.Look at the last few weeks.

At CPAC there were 10,000+ conservative activists ready to
fight, all they need is somebody willing to step up.

The poured in to hear Marco Rubio talk about the future and
take the attacks of the left in stride, he turned the democrats watery attacks
into a flood of fundraising dollars and a packed hall.

Rand Paul stood on principles, he bluntly (and concisely)
pointed out the principles of limiting the power of government and defended the
constitutional amendments from the 1st the 2nd the 4th
and the 10th.

And Ted Cruz in a speech where he eschewed the Teleprompter
walked before the podium and about the stage to tell a cheering audience when
it came to drones. And the government asking:Don’t you trust us?:

The answer is exactly that.No
we don’t trust you and we don’t trust the next guy or the next guy or the next
guy whether he’s a democrat or a republican.”

Rand Paul stood up and fought, things happened.

Ted Cruz stood up and fought things happened.

Marco Rubio stood up and fought, things happened.

One you start leading, people will follow, the trick is to
be willing to lead.

Speaking of leading ReincePriebus might be doing well on the
fundraising side but his gigantic document on “rebranding” the GOP had a
glaring omission:

For the RNC
to produce a 100-page report and not have a single mention of the need to
interact with and support the conservative blogosphere tells me that the RNC
simply has rearranged the deck chairs on the HMS Consultant.

We may not
be all that, but it’s clear that the RNC doesn’t want us to be any part of that.

All the video in the world won't change the fact that you
can't understand CPAC without seeing it close up.

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The WBC has also come and gone and the Dominican Team went a
perfect 8-0 to win it all.One can look
at that killer roster but it was a pitching staff with an ERA of under 2 for
the entire 8 games that really made the difference.

Pitching, Pitching, Pitching

I suspect the Red Sox will not have an 8 game winning streak
in 2013, but you never know.

Two weeks away from the series 7 of Dr. Who. I really don’t
like this short half season stuff nor do I think they should only have a single
episode for the 50th anniversary (monthly repeat specials not
withstanding.I think they should
include as many past doctors as they can in the season and make that
anniversary the entire theme.

But it’s easy for me to say,

Is it just me or does the Big Bang Theory get funnier every
year?The character growth has not
retarded the show one bit in fact the interaction between Howard & his wife
has really added a great dimension to the show.

I really hope they don’t play the “Make Raj gay card”.Nothing says I’m not edgy more than giving
into a social convention in that way.

Speaking of social conventions we have a new Pope and the
left is trying to wrap their heads around Francis I, particularly after his initial
mass

When he
talks about Joseph “receptive to God’s plan and not his own” it is a direct
challenge to those who worship the world. That the day after Hillery Clinton changes with the wind on “gay marriage” and Memeorandumtrumpets the latest support for it in the polls its chief opponent in the entire world takes the world stage talking
about God’s plan which directly contradicts all the media loves.

On CNN the
irony became more pronounced as Chris Cuomo brother of the Governor of NY who
has been pushing Abortion even beyond the pale in the hopes of the nomination
of the Democrat party in 2016 bluntly said there was nothing unorthodox in his
message. CNN as soon as the Homily was done pivoted toward the Sex scandal but
they couldn’t sustain the conversation in that direction as the Pope’s Homily
pushed them in into a different direction.

This Pope’s
humility and popularity is going to be a thorn in the media’s side and his
weight with the common people will force the media to continue to highlight his
every move.

Do not let
this fool you. The media will follow him, will report on him and quote
him whenever it serves to advance their agenda while, as Judas did “look
for an opportunity to hand him over“ Mark 14:11b

As I said the day he was elected the left will hate Francis
the way Satan hats the church.

Finally onthe
subject of “immigration” Jeb Bush took a hit for suggesting that people who
came illegally go back to the end of the line in terms of citizenship while
being made legal to get on with their lives.

You would have thought he killed the Lindbergh baby he was roundly
denounced for his words by the left but how could he NOT be.

For the left Amnesty is all about creating democrat voters,
period.To pretend otherwise is to fool
yourself.

While John Boehner was carrying water for POTUS on This
Week, Fox News Sunday (3/17/13) was not to be outdone overseeing a grudge match
between FreedomWorks CEO Matt Kibbe and Steve LaTourette, a former congressman
from Ohio who know heads up The Republican Mainstream Partnership. The latter
would be more aptly name LaTourette Syndrome based on the constant twitch of
his smarmy patronizing facial expressions and gesticulations as he disparaged Kibbe
who maintained a Clint Eastwood level of cool throughout.

conservatives cold and disinterested. I myself am having
trouble not changing my party affiliation to independent just to make a point
such was the bitter bite of LaTourette’s misogynist, racist message. This
barnacle refers to Tea Party supported members of congress as “chuckleheads.

Literally pointing the finger, (not the same one I had up at
that point) at a cool, calm and composed Kibbe, he curled his lip and said
“They brought us Harry Reid as the majority leader,” citing media smeared
conservatives such as Sharron Angle

Richard Mourdock as well as “I always forget her name, the
witch in Delaware,” said Latourette, to which talking head turned chucklehead
Chris Wallace giggled and chimed in; “Christine O’Donnell.

Hey Charlie Christ, you forgot something on your way out the
door, come pick up LaTourette and take Karl Rove with you. Both of whom are ready to roll up the sleeves
of their blue shirts and take their cues from the Democratic party and abandon
principle for victory.

Prompted by Wallace, Rove tees off on Sarah on several
points ostensibly to get back at her for a comment she made during her
brilliant speech at CPAC. Trouble is, Palin never named Rove by name.

LaTourette syndrome continued to spread. “Everyone agrees
legitimate rape was stupid, and if there is a child out of rape that is what
G-d intended, “ said Wallace. Gee
Mr. “I’m not a journalist, I just play one on TV” Wallace, that might have been
a good time to toss in some far more recent Democratic rape gaffs on the fair
and balanced network.

Last point for Chris Wallace, if you are going to wag your
finger in Mitt Romney’s face about his dogs’ accommodations where the dog
didn’t die, don’t use phrases like “You’ve got a dog in this fight”, as you did
when pivoting to Karl Rove on PACS and primaries. In the absence of the fair
and balanced facts, feel free to rely on rhetoric but a “dog in the race” works
equally well.

Your welcome. My bill is in the mail and I won’t hold my
breath. For anything.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Hugo Chavez was a leader that understood the needs of the poor. He was
committed to empowering the powerless. R.I.P. Mr. President.

People were expressing outrage, I don’t’ see why.The left has supported totalitarians since
Vietnam, they tried to hinder Reagan in central America and opposed his
standing up to the soviets, they did all they could to protect Saddam, why should
anyone be surprised that the Democrat left should support yet another dictator?

Chavez’
policies harmed Venezuela’s poorest in other ways: the value of the Venezuelan
currency dropped while prices soared, making it harder for people to buy basic
necessities, and crime skyrocketed…

…Chavez
also attacked Venezuela’s democratic political system. Human Rights Watch reported in 2012 that “the accumulation of power in the executive and the
erosion of human rights protections have allowed the Chávez government to
intimidate, censor, and prosecute critics and perceived opponents in a wide
range of cases involving the judiciary, the media, and civil society.” Contra
Serrano, Venezuela’s elections were not certified as “free and fair” by
international monitors of late: Chavez had not allowed international election monitors to observe Venezuelan elections since
2006.

Alas poor Think Progress they didn’t think of shutting off
comments on their post.They don’t seem
to share that opinion.

While the Think Progress crew is seems to miss the dictator
there are signs that some other groups are moving in the
right direction.As you might have heard
an attempt was made on Lars Hedegaard’s life over his cartoons hitting Islam,
what you might now have heard is how the Islamic society of Copenhagen reacted:

When the
news broke on Feb. 5 that Mr. Hedegaard had narrowly escaped an attack on his
life, recalled Imran Shah of Copenhagen’s Islamic Society, “we knew that this
was something people would try to blame on us. We knew we had to be in the
forefront and make clear that political and religious violence is totally
unacceptable.”

I’ve never been shy about hitting Radical Islam, conversely
when you see Muslims do the right thing that needs to be highlighted
and encouraged.If we don’t’ support
people willing to object to this kind of thing in the Muslim community the hard
liners will roll right over them.

Meanwhile in the US being willing to speak against Radical
Islam or it’s enablers will get you banned from
CPAC

This year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room
for an AFDI event, "The War on Free Speech," and was ignored. So, for
the first time in five years, I won't be at CPAC. Last year Suhail Khan bragged out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully
kept Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn people not to attend our events or read our books.

But as time
went by and no announcement was made of this victory, and the voting continued
despite my having been told that it officially ended last Friday night and that
I had won, and the promised links and other placement
promised to the winning blog didn't materialize, I started to wonder. So I
contacted the organizer who had written me telling me I won and asked him what
was going on.

He told me
that there was a slight problem: the Tea Party group, which co-sponsored this
People's Choice Blog Award, didn't want to allow me to receive it at CPAC next
week unless I promised not to criticize Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan as I
accepted the award.

I told the
organizer that I couldn't agree to that. He asked me if I had planned to talk
about Grover and Suhail. I said no, I hadn't, but I had to now.

So that's
that. The People's Choice Blog Award is now the Grover's Choice Blog Award. I
will not be going to CPAC and will not be receiving this award.

Hugo Chavez might be dead but apparently his spirit lives
on, I just didn’t think it would live on at CPAC.

Meanwhile while some try to deny the dangers of Radical
Islam others are counting
on it.

Mind you the Kimberlin crowd is
not doing this because they object to some Muslims being critiqued as murderous
barbarian bastards who would kill or threaten a person who objects to Islamic
threats. They are doing this specifically because
they BELIEVE Muslims to be murderous barbarian bastards who will threaten or harm those who critique
them, in fact they’re counting on
it!

And these guys don’t have the
excuse of trying to please God

Just picked up the in the 2nd Season of the 4th
Doctor Adventures at Mike’s Comics/Anne’s Book Stop of Worcester The Sands of
life.

It’s a simply delightful episode the first of two parts, the
second being released next month.While
a great pleasure it makes one sad.How
many great Doctor Romana #1 stories could we have had if Tom Baker had jumped
on Board with Big Finish in 1999 rather than in 2011.

Not to mention Sarah Jane Stores.

I don’t know if they will do any Lalla Ward stories, her
being his ex wife it might be complicated.

BTW David Warner guests in The Sands of life, is there
anything at ALL he isn’t good in?

I’ve been following the World Baseball Classic.Three interesting stories thus far.

The Dutch Team.Last
time they shocked the world by eliminating the Dominican Republic this time
they advanced at the expense of Korea.

Don’t’ think for one minute that performance last time
didn’t help build up the team for this time around.

Brazil vs China:Brazil blew two 8th inning leads vs Japan and China but the
Chinese game was incredible, in the 8th inning Brazil walked five
batters (three ties forcing in runs) hit one and give up the key bases loaded
single that gave China a lead they would never surrender.

Did you know China has a General Secretary of Baseball.She
stood behind the manager during the game.She didn’t react when China took the lead but when they turned a 5-4-3
double play after Brazil put on the first man in the ninth she cheered like a
person who didn’t have to go back to communist masters and tell them they
qualified for 2016.

Italy is playing in Pool D.If you are a non-baseball country it’s got to be the worst bracket to be
fighting in, Mexico, Canada and the US.Despite this Italy managed to beat Mexico in the first game 6-5
surviving a bases loaded 3-2 situation in the last of the ninth.